linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

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Message-ID: <6e6dae45ffbf7a6ab54175695a3e21207c6f5126.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 23:40:04 +0200
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Linus Torvalds
	 <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, 
 linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, Richard Henderson
 <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,  Ivan Kokshaysky
 <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>, Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>, Alexander
 Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

On Fri, 2024-05-10 at 23:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The following changes since commit fec50db7033ea478773b159e0e2efb135270e3b7:
> 
>   Linux 6.9-rc3 (2024-04-07 13:22:46 -0700)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git tags/asm-generic-alpha
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to a4184174be36369c3af8d937e165f28a43ef1e02:
> 
>   alpha: drop pre-EV56 support (2024-05-06 12:05:00 +0200)

I'm still against dropping pre-EV56 so quickly without a proper phaseout period.
Why not wait for the next LTS release? AFAIK pre-EV56 support is not broken, is
it?

Adrian

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